Four months

T was four months old yesterday.

Yup, buddy, four months!

He's pretty awesome. He's such a mellow kid still, and smiley. He has slept through the night a few nights since early September, although he has yet to get fully into that groove. He likes his peeps and is just a little bit more happy when Dad is home and he has everyone he is supposed to. He is doing well at daycare and he and I are in a production/consumption race, unlike his bottle-strike brother. No real interest in food yet, but he loves to sit with everyone at the dinner table.

Although sit is a loose term.



That outfit? E wore it when he was about 11 months old...we'll get the official info next week, but our back-room measurements put T at 16.4 pounds and 26 inches. Or... way ahead of his brother. He is his own man....

Click for more big blue chair.

Edited to add: apparently T started rolling from his back to belly last week at daycare. He has done it for me when he wasn't completely flat, so I didn't count it. Punk.
Further edited to add (11-30): Still regarding that as a fluke, since I still haven't seen it three weeks later.
Still further edited to add: At his doctor's appointment on 11-26, T weighed in at 15 lb 12.5 oz, and measured 27". Around 50th percentile for weight and off the scale for height. Well, he's 75th percentile for height - for a six month old. Looooong.

Iphoneography August

There was a lot more going on in August, but here are a few quick looks at what hadn't made the blog yet.

E's favorite new form of interval training:

It's a long slow walk around the lake this way, and a long fast walk if I push the stroller and E is free to run.


I thought this was the cutest gift from Ray's work. Already featured it on T here.

And: I finally managed to drag Ray to a baseball game so I could get a good hot dog (not so much on the beer, Coors field has become very disappointing in their selection). T's first baseball game:

E LOVED the game and was actually pretty focused on it, although his favorite part was probably Dinger. We celebrated the Rockies' win over the Marlins at Breckenridge Brewery. E went for his new favorite menu item (the kids' menu is for coloring!)

Denver Children's Museum

One of my missions while we were all on leave was to visit as many of the "sights" that we've been missing as we could. After all, we were free on weekdays, when everything is so much quieter -and it is, it was great! Anyway, one of the highlights for E was the Children's Museum in August.

Their big feature this summer was a water exhibit, which of course gained my attention. It was fun, and E would have liked to do more, actually...

E really liked this, which was just PVC that you could move around to make the water flow down different ramps. Obviously Ray was entertained as well. We should probably just build one...

E would also like to have this fishing game in his house.

He was impressively good at it, and VERY persistent. (E, that is, although I just realized that Ray has both rods in this pic).

Speaking of persistent, E would wait for FOREVER to catch one of these bubbles.

Success! Look at those determined little shoulders.

This was the highlight for the adults:


T and I had to stay out of the soap filled slippery room, so we have to go back for our turn. Soon.

I would never have thought the pretend grocery store would be such a hit, but here you go:

Cracker and dairy shopper extraordinaire. Carbs and dairy, just like his mama.

And then there was the woodland playground. I had to take E through the intimidating tunnels the first time, and then this rabbit came out and dragged Ray through.


There was even fun to be had outside after the museum closed.



(Hopscotch, the chalkboard cow. Ray's signature duck on her shoulder.)

Follow that up with dinner at the alehouse (probably my first whole beer in a LONG time) and it was a pretty awesome day for all of us!